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Re: Official MLB The Show 17 Fantasy Draft Franchise Progress Thread
Ok so I started ranking players in order by position. Please keep in mind that these take age, production, and contract into equation. The idea is that teams are going to go more for the younger player with the better contract (less money/more years or just more years overall) as they'd have a better chance to build a team around these players over the long haul. With that said though, teams do want to win a championship now too if they can. So a team isn't going to pass up Buster Posey for Carson Kelly.
This is just a really rough draft. Please post opinions like "I think this guy should go here" or "these guys need to be swapped" or "lower this guy a lot"....
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Forgot to make one for DH but basically if you guys are looking for Encarnacion, Trumbo, Morales, Napoli, etc. I'm classifying those guys as DHs and they'll have their own separate category.Last edited by h8_messy; 04-26-2017, 01:57 PM.Comment
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Re: Official MLB The Show 17 Fantasy Draft Franchise Progress Thread
Even though they only have 2 years left....you will get 2 prime production years and a team taking either of them...should be in a "go for it" for it now mode. Same if you are taking some highly rated veterans early. Build those teams to win now early in the draft. And then give them a decent farm system too to rebuild on a more balanced playing field.
My entire goal when I run my 30 team draft later this summer is to draft the best player available for every team in rounds 1-9. Once I hit round 10 I take a look at each teams roster and draft accordingly based on personnel and positional need.
It is not easy. And I think I can only handle doing this for 25 rounds. My goal is to get the 25 man rosters in place for every team. And then auto pick each team (except mine) the rest of the way. The cards will fall wherever they may. But in theory if I control the first 25 picks for every team (750 player picks I will personally make just kill me now LOL) I should see a robust, competitive league in Year one. Plus we control every lineup to set 40 man rosters and 25 man lineups for the regular season.
It should be awesome.Now Playing on PS5:
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Re: Official MLB The Show 17 Fantasy Draft Franchise Progress Thread
Came up with this idea today of doing a fantasy draft and picking only switch hitting batters. Has anyone done anything like this before? What does your team look like? Ideally i would love a roster that looks something like this:
C: Swihart
1B: Carlos Santana
2B: Villar
SS: Lindor
3B: Jose Ramirez
LF: Melky Cabrera
CF: Billy Hamilton
RF: Dexter Fowler
DH: Beltran
Not sure how realistic it is to get that lineup in a fantasy draft but im really looking forward to getting it started tonight!Comment
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Re: Official MLB The Show 17 Fantasy Draft Franchise Progress Thread
be carefull armor from doing 30 team drafts in past years you will end up with some teams that take pitching with there top 7 picks. Now there is nothing wrong with this but it leaves them very week in position players and the cpu never leverages this pitching surplus for batting talent.Comment
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I'm not sure what rosters you are using, but I think with the OSFM roster you can make that lineup happen in a fantasy draft. It would prob go something like Lindor-Villar-Ramirez-Hamilton-Santana-Fowler with the first 6 picks(not 100% positive Fowler will still be there). You can get Beltran and Swihart in later rounds, not sure when Melky goes. Your problem would be pitching as you'd have to draft your pitchers late, but you can still get some decent ones just not a top ace.Comment
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Guys I know this unrelated. I did a draft with my buddy the other day ( finally convinced him to buy a PS4) and got a great team. Wound up making some
Big trades (very fair prospect wise) and settled with a berth good
Team. Too much fun I'll post the 25 man here shortly. But the online fantasy draft is much better situated. (I picked Andrew Miller with the 30h). There are no 20 man pitching staffs )I get it) but the teams makeups make sense and the actually trade for positions of need.MLB The Show 20
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I am not auto picking for the first 25 rounds. So that won’t happen.
This 30 team draft is probably going to take me at least 5-6 hours easy. I want to take their 25 man roster first and make sure each team fields a proper team with a proper bench. Once round 26 begins I am sure the run on top prospects will begin!!!
So with my method the first 25 rounds are MLB ready players.
It is a daunting task, but using the 1987 90 man roster will be super fun with this draft. My familiarity with this era will make it a joy to draft players for every tea, and create a pure 80’s retro fantasy universe.Now Playing on PS5:
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Last edited by Armor and Sword; 04-28-2017, 11:10 AM.Now Playing on PS5:
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Just finished my first season as the Brewers at 81-81. Didn't make any major trades as we were in the Wild Card race the entire season but I also didn't want to give up any young prospects for veterans.
Drafted a couple top 50 prospects including a 75 overall A potential SP who's only 18 years old. I'll let him develop for a season or 2 in AAA before bringing him up. Don't want to waste MLB years on a team that's going no where.
Picked up a couple average FA's that could make a difference, but if we're failing a month in, I'll start looking at moving Braun & Thames for prospects. Here's my team:
C - Hundley (FA pickup), Susac
1B - Thames, M. Gonzalez (FA pickup)
2B - Villar, Spangeburg (FA pickup)
3B - Shaw
SS - Arcia, Franklin
LF - Braun, Wren
CF - Broxton
RF - Santana
SP
1 Guerra
2 Davies
3 Jungmann
4 Nelson
5 Peralta
RP
Lyles (Trade)
Wilkerson
Crockett (Trade)
Cole (Rule 5)
Delgado (Trade)
Knebel
Feliz
Prospects that could get called up:
OF Brinson (B potential)
OF Phillips (B potential)
2B Lopes (B potential - 2017 draft pick)
SP Hader (B potential)
My top prospects aren't progressing as fast as I was hoping so that's why I'm keeping the veterans around. I don't want to bring up Brinson or Phillips, only for them to fail and never progress.
Looking forward to the 2018 season!Comment
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Never drafted that new Yankees team with the 1987 set.
I am really too wrapped up in my current 2017 franchise and The Matheny Manifesto (Fantasy Cardinals from 16) YR2
Once YR2 of the Manifesto wraps up (I figure it will around July, August) then we will draft that new league using the 1987 90 man roster.Now Playing on PS5:
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I've been meaning to post this, but never got around to it....
So, I did my first ever 30-team draft last weekend. I wanted a completely new league, but was never satisfied with the roster construction with simulated drafts in single-team control.....my goodness....so much happier with the outcome with the 30-team control. This is how I approached it.
For my team
I drafted the 25 man roster for "my" team based on my preferences...sticking ONLY with guys intended for the major league roster (i.e. not prospect diving...though I did spring for Moncada to be my starting 2b)
For the CPU:
- For the first 10 rounds, I drafted the best available player (by overall) for each CPU team (which yes, meant that Andrew Miller was a first round pick...not the first pick of the 9th round...lol). If the best available was redundant (like a closer for a team that had selected one already), I selected the next best available player. In a handful of cases where multiple players had the same overall rating, I chose a guy based on other factors (upside, fit with roster, or just for storyline purposes).
- For rounds 11-25, I picked on need to fill a complete major league roster (i.e. 12 man pitching staff, appropriate backups). In most cases, I selected the best overall player at a position. But, I also strongly looked at everything from age, platoon possibilities, skills they had, and just other miscellaneous stuff. I got some really nifty platoons for some teams. Another thing....I tried to not fill the rosters for every team the same way....I purposely made some teams stronger on hitting, some on pitching, some with weak bullpens, etc.
For both mine and the CPU teams, I simmed the remainder of the draft. (I was trying to sim just the CPU's...but goofed....but actually was pleased with the outcome across the board).
The next phase was key. I started in spring training and placed every player (for every team) who was on the 40-man roster on the MLB roster. When spring training ended, the CPU took care of the cuts to the 25 man opening day and because I had drafted on the basis of overall in those first 25 rounds...every roster was properly set with a 12 man pitching staff and appropriate back-ups across the board (a component sorely missing in single-team fantasy drafts).
It took some "work"; but I am so much happier with the end result. I have a nice solid roster, but it is one with warts...and my minor league system is balanced as well.Play the games you love, not the games you want to love.Comment
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Made it into June with the Yankees, I must say this team is super fun to play with, but might end up giving me high blood pressure! Hah. Mid-June update tonight, with a lot of info.
That being said, I've been playing a lot of DD as of late, and due to that have been toying with the idea of doing a second draft, with legends on, probably this evening. Plan is to use a NL team & I have it down to these teams:
Marlins
Reds
Dbacks
Which team do you guys think I should use?
Well looked, around and found a decent roster for a starting point. Unfortunately, it's way too stacked and is missing a lot of guys that I want to see in the roster. Currently going through player vault and finding as many missing pieces as possible to add in, then editing existing players in the roster, and finally creating what will be needed. All in all I am looking to assemble a 1987-2010 roster (excluding most if not all active players now). Once I get through the adding and editing, If anyone is interested in using this roster let me know and I will try to include specific playersLast edited by J_smith2190; 05-05-2017, 12:28 AM.MLB The Show 20
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